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Nathaniel Rosi - Ligand exchange phenomena and the realization of gradients in metal-organic frameworks

Tuesday, May 16, 2017 13:00

Natural and engineered systems often use functional or structural gradients to control the directional transport of matter.  Gradients within MOFs would allow for selective and directional...

Chemical Society Seminar: Georgii Nikonov - Main group compounds for bond activation and catalysis

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 13:00to14:15

Main group metal catalysis is of great current interest due to its potential to circumvent the high cost and toxicity of common transition metal catalysts.1 One of the major hurdles in this area is...

Chemical Society Seminar: Dr. Joaquin Ortega - The Impact of Recent Improvements in Cryo-electron Microscopy Technology on the Understanding New Antimicrobial Targets

Tuesday, March 28, 2017 13:00to14:15

Multidrug resistance infections are putting us at risk of entering into a ‘postantibiotic era’ with people at the mercy of microbes and treatments like major surgery no longer possible.801 rue...

Chemical Society Seminar: Dr. Kevin R. Wilson - The Interfacial Chemistry of Organic Aerosols and Cloud Droplets

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 13:00to14:15

Developing accurate descriptions of the role that interfacial chemistry plays in the multiphase oxidation of organic aerosol and cloud droplet nucleation remains an outstanding challenge.801 rue...

The Li group uses alkyl carbanions to make greener nucleophilic additions

Published: 23 February 2017

Xijie Dai, Haining Wang and C.J. Li have recently demonstrated that carbonyl derivatives could be used in a similar fashion to Grignard reagents using a smart Umpolung strategy and thus replaced...

The second issue of the student-led ۲ݮƵ Green Chemistry Journal is out!

Published: 23 February 2017

For the second year in a row, students from the Green Chemistry course (CHEM 462) are releasing their journal issue, published online as The ۲ݮƵ Green Chemistry Journal. This volume gathers the...

Chemical Society Seminar: Dr. Preston Chase - Development and Commercial Application of Novel Catalyst and Green Solvent Technologies

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 13:00to14:15

Progressing academic research from the initial invention discovery at the bench to industrial application requires significant efforts, including, for example, scaling of materials for testing,...

Dima Perepichka becomes Sir William C. Macdonald Chair in Chemistry

Published: 22 February 2017

The Sir William C. Macdonald Chair in Chemistry was established in 1901 and is one of the oldest Named Chairs at the University....

CCVC Seminar: Dr. Kyoko Nozaki - Development of New Catalytic Reactions toward Utilization of Renewable Resources

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 13:00to14:15

Carbon dioxide is one of the most attractive renewable C1 resources, which has many practical advantages such as abundance, economic efficiency, and lack of toxicity.801 rue Sherbrooke Ouest,...

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